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New Wildland firefighting equiptment!
I am from a small vol. dept. and we have alot of wildland fires so I was wondering if any of yalls dept had any cool new stuff or Ideas for our new wildland truck we are putting together?
thanks
stay safe!!!!!!
thanks
stay safe!!!!!!
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Permalink Reply by PFC Harmon on
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True. I would like to have a smaller version of your trucks like a 4x4 ranger or colorado and have a brush rig bed put on the back. But then you would have issues with suspension and power.
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Permalink Reply by Tony P on
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We have the small 4x4 type of wildfire vehicle (called an 'Ultra Light Tanker' in most of the country) and our structural/wildfire vehicles (called 'Tankers') which are something along the lines of the Cal. Type III's. This is my own Brigades Tanker:
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The vehicle is 4WD, weighs around 14 tonne, carries 2000 litres of water with Class A foam, a diesel powered pump, hand tools and five crew. The larger tankers carry a usable 3000 litres of water and have crew cabs (usable refers to our practice of reserving part of the water supply for crew protection in a burnover situation). The tankers are capable of travelling in fairly tight country - if it's too tight and overgrown, it's unlikely that we'd go in there anyway. We work on the system of no multiple escape routes, then we don't go in there.
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Permalink Reply by Brian Richards on
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We have 3 "wildland" brush trucks, 2 F-350 Crew cab 4x4's with 300 gal. tanks and 2 wildland reel lines. Also one 1993 Hummer with the same equip. as the fords'. Take a look
http://www.cypresscreekvfd.com/operations/apparatus/
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Permalink Reply by BillySFCVFD on
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Mike,
Deflating tires is an old farm boy trick and it works. For 20 years the Army has had Central Tire Inflation Systems (CTIS) where you can do that from the driver's seat. Heck I think Arnie's Hummer had one. Won't he buy one for you too? TCSS
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Permalink Reply by Fuzzy Carr on
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How about Tri-Max CAFS like this.
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Permalink Reply by Jason Koontz on
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Honestly, for me, the best brush rigs I've had all have 2 each of pulaskis, macleods, combi tools, round shovels; 3 backpack pumps; a flathead axe; a chainsaw with two extra wood chains, chaps, extra spark plugs, air cleaners, sharpening bars; 1000 ft of toy hose, 500 ft of 1 inch, 100 ft of 1 1/2 inch; a 250 gallon tank with a 14 or higher hp pump; a volume pump we can leave at water holes; and extra shelters, helmets and coveralls for anyone we hire onscene that needs them. They were all standard transmission Ford F550 4x4's with dually's on the back axle.
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Permalink Reply by Chris Jackson on
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We just put a F550 in service. The coolest option so far is a remote control front nozzle. Very easy to knock down fires quickly without getting out of the truck. The down side it dumps 300 gallons FAST. One of the things we overlooked is having water level guages in the cab for the driver to see without getting out. Another good option for our area because we have sporadic structures in our wildland was a 200' preconnect of 1.25 for structure protection. We also went low tech for the foam system. Our brush trucks are used only in dry season. We had a huge problem with injectors gumming up. We simply pour foam into our water tank as needed. Makes a large bubble factory when refilling but its firefighter proof.
Be Safe,
Chris
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Permalink Reply by Trainer on
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Tony, what do you think, for the dept that has everything?? I got to figuring price, the track kit at least for a pickup it 15 grand, add another 15 for the Kubota and around 8 for the suppression equipment, yep that’s $38,000. I think everyone needs one. :o)
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